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A privately owned social media platform exists for no other reason than to promote the political agenda and economic interests of its owner(s). So where you see
by yawpitch 2y ago
A privately owned social media platform exists for no other reason than to promote the political agenda and economic interests of its owner(s). So where you see racism, misogyny, and lies I see a racist misogynist who lies.
- zx8080 2y agoA honest question. What is some example of the non-privately owned social media?
- rpgwaiter 2y agoMastodon, Lemmy, any other Fediverse project. Sure you could argue that any individual server is privately owned, but the collective protocol is about as public as something like social media can be
- yawpitch 2y agoHonest answer, not something we’ve achieved yet. Some hints of it in NNTP, HTTP, RSS/Atom, Usenet… but until we decide that Internet connectivity is a fundamental human right and actually back that up I think we’ll still be a long way off from a digital commons.
- rsynnott 2y agoEh, I mean generally they exist to sell ads, typically in a fairly amoral way (like, within limits, nothing that will annoy shareholders too much). Twitter's the exception, here.